Corona and Work around the Globe

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Corona and Work around the Globe

Edited by: Andreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke

Volume 11 in the series Work in Global and Historical Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718249

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Contents

About this book

Special issue!

This book provides a global perspective on the transformations in the world of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of essays will break down the general statistics and trends into glimpses of concrete experiences of workers during pandemic, of workplaces transformed or destroyed, of workers protesting against political measures, of professions particularly exposed to the coronavirus, and also of the changing nature of some professions.

Author information

Andreas Eckert, and Felicitas Hentschke, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Prologue Mahua Sarkar Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Corona and Work around the Globe Andreas Eckert and Felicitas Hentschke Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Despair and Indifference at the Margins
Skill, Informality, and Work in Pandemic Times: Insights from India Supurna Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
‘It was Quiet’: Pandemics as Normal Life in a Romanian Town Alina-Sandra Cucu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
‘Solidarity’ in Times of Corona? Of Migrant Ghettos, Low-Wage Heroines, and Empty Public Coffers Nicole Mayer-Ahuja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Fear, Flight, and the Labor Question: Looking at Two Pandemics Chitra Joshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Being ‘Relevant to the System’ is Female
Maids in Brazil: Domestic and Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Larissa Rosa Corrêa and Paulo Fontes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Coronavirus Conjunctures: Waged Work, Wagelessness, and Futures in South Africa Bridget Kenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Lending Style to the Unseemly: COVID-19 and Mask Design in Ethiopia Bahru Zewde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Shutter Release I. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
Black Ward Maurice Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
“Why are People Dying in Our Hands?” was a Question that was Present Everywhere – An Interview Maurice Weiss and Felicitas Hentschke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
The Health System in Which We Live
Nurses Marcel van der Linden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Changing Care Networks in the United Kingdom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Scares and Possibilities: The COVID-19 Emergency, the Disruption of Globalization, and the Reinvention of the Welfare State Preben Kaarsholm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
State Dysfunction in a ‘Fortunate’ Japan Yoko Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Thwarted Youth
Learning in Lockdown: Studying and Teaching in Wales during the Coronavirus Pandemic James Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Youth Transitions in the Time of COVID-19 and Political Uprising Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner Publicly Available Download PDF	146
Women’s Empowerment Initiatives in the Sahel Challenged by COVID-19 Babacar Fall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Shutter Release II. Current Issues in the World, Told Visually
‘This is Ridiculous,’ Voting as Labor During COVID-19: A Report from the United States Ellen Rothenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Insistence on Voting Despite the Pandemic is an Act of Resistance – An Interview Ellen Rothenberg and Felicitas Hentschke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Fighting for Justice in the Pandemic
Police Violence and the Crisis of Work Authority in the COVID-19 Era Leon Fink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
“We did All the Work for You”: Sex Work in Argentina in Pandemic Times Cristiana Schettini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
The Reserve Army of Labor in the Air: Military Support Systems for Furloughed El Al Pilots On Barak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
When Private and Public Spaces Become Blurred
Telework between Market and Family: The COVID-19 Crisis as an Accelerator of Social Change Jürgen Kocka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Work in Times of COVID-19: What is New and What is Not. A Western European Perspective Sandrine Kott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Through a Screen, Darkly: The Micro and Macro of Daily Life in the Early Pandemic Era Daniel Eisenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Picture Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Modern History, labor History and Global History, libraries and the interested public.
Pages
- Main content: 278
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 70
Keywords: Worker history; Pandemic; Work place; Covid-19

eBook

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110718249

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110716894